Our Orchard

Mulching the food hedge

Ryan Kraeger

 spent a few mornings over the last couple weeks, running loads of wood chips out to the food hedge. Not very time efficient, takes about an hour to load up drive out unload and drive back, but eventually we got it done.

This was the most difficult section to mulch, because every shovelful had to be carried up and over the pile of stones.

But, there it is, mulched from stem to stern, as they say.The wood chips do a great job of retaining moisture around the roots and suppressing weeds, to give our plants a fighting chance over the hot, dry summer that looks like it’s headed our way.

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Published by Ryan Kraeger

"I only remember the very first part of the book where he described the man of steel and velvet and I remember the deep chord that phrase struck. I remember the image I had of a hand of living steel wearing a velvet glove, a hand that could crush or caress, strike a killing blow or wipe away tears, lift mountains or cradle an infant. The rest of the book was an afterthought." From an essay about Aubrey Andelin's "Man of Steel and Velvet".

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